Chair-seat.



V 'PATENTED 11120. 75 901. J. w. HENRY; CHAIR SEAT.

APPLIOAIIOI FILED AUG. 18, 1906.

anoewtbz Wit" use:

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- JOHNW. HENRY, or NEW YORK, Y.

CHAIR-SEAT.

No. 873,939. v

i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. HENRY, a

' citizen of the United States, residingat New manufacture of said seats, to-permanently secure asuitable covering upon asset base' York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have inventedcertainnew and useful Improvements in- Chair Seats, of whichthe following is a specification. 4

This invention relates to chair seats and the like, and particularly to a fastener of novel construction especially designed, in the and to thereby" produce as a. new article of manufacture andsale, a covered chair' seat complete in itself and adaptedto be readily secured to achair frame by furnitureforother tacks ornails. An important object of the present inventionis toproduceachair seat of thejcharacter mentionedin which the covering is permanently secured to the either with or without the intervention of a suitable filling, by means of fastening means'which are convenient to use, satisfactoryin o eration and ada ted to be wholly conceale' by furniture tac s of ordinary construction" employed to secure the seat upon-a chair frame. 1

. A further'object ofmy invention isftopro-jj vide a chair'seat'anjdsir-sport therefor-fin .which a chair seat basean covering at tached to its support by means'adapte'd -to totally conceal the fasteners employed to 'se- 1 jcure said covering upon said base. 35,

" ,Thede tailed construction of :my invention will appear in the course of the following de-' scription in which reference is bad to the ac-" cornpanying drawings forming a part of this,

s'pe'c1fication, like numerals designating like parts throughout the several views, wherein,

Figure 1 is an elevation of a fastemngde vice constructed in accordance with my invention and showing the-members detached.

Fig. 2 is a similarlylarranged longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 isa' side elevation of the binding member' of thefastening device; Fig. 4-is an elevation showing the'deta'ched I 'parts'in their operative relation, and Fig. 5

elevation. V

k Inthe-drawings, inwhich is illustrated the preferred -embo iment 'of my invention, the v is asection showing the manner of use of the fastening device, the latter being shown in numeral 1 designates a chain seat constructed generally as shown in Fi 5 and com rising a relatively stiff base 2' o metal, woo ,ffiber v Specificationof Letters Patent. Application filed August 13.19oa- Serial No; 330.423.

Patented Dec. 17, 1907,

or the like, a filling 3 and a flexible cover 4,

having its edges bent around the base 2, as at ,5. The cover 4 is reinforced at its edges by a strip of gimp 6, both coverand gimp being secured upon the base 2 by'myimproved fastening device. This device is illustrated in Fig. 3 and comprises dished head 7 of readily. puncturable metal, which may be and preferablyis formed with a central opening S which registers with an opening9, provided with a bow shaped portion 10 of a flexible metallic section 11, which in turn is formed with downwardly extending parallel offset prongs 11 spaced apart as shown The fas-' teningdevlce thus constructed serves for binding the edges of the-seat and in such function the prongs 1 1 are inserted through I anopening 12'for1nedin the several superlmgosed portions of the base and covering an are ben'tin opposite directions, as shown 13, 'uponthe underneath surface of the seat. A fastening' member which co-acts with the binding member above described when thebase is secured to a chair-frame as shown ,inl'Fig. 5, com risesv an enlarged dished head5 14, adapte to cover and con ceal andpreferabl conforming inshape with thephead 8; and a apted to inclose the same, the head 14j beinghformed with a central'de- Pe ng 2' throng t ,tering Bron; "15 which in use projects e openings 8 and 9 in their regischair.

VVhileI- have described my invention as particularly relating to chair seats and fastening meansidesigned for use in making the same, it is to be understood. that it contemplateschair backs s'tool coverings and, in

fact, any analogous covered or upholsteredfurniture element designedto befsecured in t0 the frame of an permanent finished form article of furniture; a

'- While the elements herein shown and described are well adapted to serve the purposes for which they are intended, it is to be understood' that various minor ehanges may be made :in the proportions, shape and arrangement of the several parts without departing from the spirit and sec e of the invention as defined in the appen ed claims.

. Having-thus described my invention, what -I claim anddesire to secureby Letters Patent,is:

Ah article of the character described, consisting of "a chairrseat comprising a base, a

relation and into thestock 16 f the covering securedtheretwa strip 'off gimp. Y

extending around the edge of said covering, and binding members extending through said gimp, covering and base, said binding members comprising an enlarged head, provided with a centrally disposed perforation therein and a pair of fiat, flexible prongs spaced apart from each other to accommodate therebetween a nail or tack adapted to JOHN W. HEN KY.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. INGRAI-IAM,

W. L. lflvmu'rr. 

